In 2002 and 2003 the Enterprise Directorate-General followed up on its Best-Procedure project of the previous year. A group of experts nominated by their national administrations set benchmarks for key areas of the 1994 Commission Recommendation on business transfers where it would be the most important to make further progress. The experts described the actions already taken or planned by the different countries and by the European Commission to improve the implementation of the Commission Recommendation and to respond to the recommendations made by the Best project expert group of 2001/2002.